Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 64470
Bad instructions in README file
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:52 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020504 Description of problem: Hi All, The README file in the kernel directory (/root/sysbackup/usr/src/linux-2.4.7-10/) that contains the directions for recompiling the kernel contains inaccurate information, missing information and in general is very poorly written (tons of extra unnecessary, extraneous fluff ). 1) does not mention "make clean", 2) contains a discussion on the defunct lilo booter and nothing on the current grub loader, 3) contains no discussion of the /etc/modules.conf file, 4) leaves off discussion on /sbin/mkinitrd. As I am not an expert on compiling the kernel, I am sure it has left off other things as well. This file really needs to be corrected! Or, drop the contents all together and point to a URL with the correct instructions. Many thanks, --Tony aewell@gbis.com Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.follow the directions in /root/sysbackup/usr/src/linux-2.4.7-10/README 2.see if it works 3. Additional info:
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